The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: brain whose separate and occasionally stubborn volition echoed
the will of the Old Ones without always obeying it. Sculptured
images of these Shoggoths filled Danforth and me with horror and
loathing. They were normally shapeless entities composed of a
viscous jelly which looked like an agglutination of bubbles, and
each averaged about fifteen feet in diameter when a sphere. They
had, however, a constantly shifting shape and volume - throwing
out temporary developments or forming apparent organs of sight,
hearing, and speech in imitation of their masters, either spontaneously
or according to suggestion.
They seem to have become peculiarly
 At the Mountains of Madness |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Tanach: Genesis 44: 25 And our father said: Go again, buy us a little food.
Genesis 44: 26 And we said: We cannot go down; if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down; for we may not see the man's face, except our youngest brother be with us.
Genesis 44: 27 And thy servant my father said unto us: Ye know that my wife bore me two sons;
Genesis 44: 28 and the one went out from me, and I said: Surely he is torn in pieces; and I have not seen him since;
Genesis 44: 29 and if ye take this one also from me, and harm befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Genesis 44: 30 Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad is not with us; seeing that his soul is bound up with the lad's soul;
Genesis 44: 31 it will come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die; and thy servants will bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave. Genesis 44: 32 For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying: If I bring him not unto thee, then shall I bear the blame to my father for ever.
Genesis 44: 33 Now therefore, let thy servant, I pray thee, abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.
Genesis 44: 34 For how shall I go up to my father, if the lad be not with me? lest I look upon the evil that shall come on my father.'
Genesis 45: 1 Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried: 'Cause every man to go out from me.' And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself k  The Tanach |